Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. V.
1 Blame thou not an elder man, but bisech
as a fadir, &yogh;onge men, as britheren;
olde wymmen,
2 as modris, &yogh;onge wymmen,
as sistris, in al chastite.
3 Honoure thou
widewis, that ben verrey widewis.
4 Forsoth
if ony widew hath sone, or children
of sones, lerne sche first for to gouerne
hir hous, and `chaungable while, `or ech
to othir, &yogh;elde to fadir and modir; sothli
this thing is aceptid bifore God.
5 Forsoth
she that is a widowe verily, and desolat,
`or discomfortid, hope into God,
and wake, `or be bysi, in bisechingis and
preieris ny&yogh;t and day.
6 Forwhi sche that
is lyuynge in delycis, is deed.
7 And this
thing comaunde thou, that thei be withoute
reprof.
8 Forsoth if ony man haue
not cure of his owne, and moost of his
houshold men, he hath denyed the feith,
and is worse than an vnfeithful, `or hethen,
man.
9 A widewe be `not chosun
lesse than sixty &yogh;eer, that was wyf of oon
hosebonde,
10 hauynge witnessinge in goode
workis, if she norische sones, if she resseyue
pore men to herbore, if she hath
-- --
waischyn the feet of hooly men, if she
vndirmynistride to men suffringe tribulacioun,
if she folowide al good work.
11 Forsoth eschewe &yogh;ongere widewis; forsothe
whanne thei han don leccherie in
Crist,
12 thei wolen be weddid, hauynge
dampnacioun, for thei han maad the firste
feith voide.
13 Also forsothe and thei ydel
lernen for to enuyrowne housis, not
oonly forsoth ydel, but and ful of wordis
and curiouse, spekinge what thing `it
bihoueth not.
14 Therfore I wole, &yogh;ongere
for to be weddid, for to brynge forth
sones, for to be hosewyues, for to &yogh;yue
noon occasioun to the aduersarie, bicause
of cursid thing.
15 `Now forsoth summe
ben turned abac aftir Sathanas.
16 If ony
feithful man hath widewis, vndirmynistre
he to hem, that the chirche be not
greuyd, that it suffice to hem that ben verri
widewis.
17 The prestis that ben wel bifore,
`that is, treuly kepen presthod, be
thei hadd worthi double honour; moost
thei that trauelen in word and teching.
18 Sothli the scripture seith, Thou schalt not
bridele the mouth to the oxe threischinge,
and, A werkman is worthi his hyre.
19 Nyle
thou resceyue accusyng a&yogh;ens a prest, no
but vndir tweye or thre witnessis.
20 Forsothe
`repreue thou men synnynge bifore
alle men, that and othere haue drede.
21 I preie, or coniure, thee bifore God, and
`Crist Jhesu, and his chosne angels, that
thou kepe thes thingis, and withouten
bifore dom `doynge nothing, bowynge
-- --
into another part.
22 `To no man soone
thou schalt putte hondis, nether `thou
schalt comune with othere mennis synnes.
23 Kepe thi silf chast. Nyle thou &yogh;it drynke
watir, but use a litil wyn for thi stomak,
and thin ofte falling infirmytees.
24 `Sum
mennis synnes ben opyn, `bifore goynge
to dom; forsoth of `sum men and thei
suen.
25 Also and goode dedis ben opyn, and
tho that han hem othirwyse, mown
not be hid.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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